| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 230 pages) : maps |
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Africa now |
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Africa now (Zed Books)
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| Contents |
Grabbing of African lands for energy and food : implications for land rights, food security and smallholders / Kjell Havnevik -- Biofuel governance : a matter of discursive and actor intermesh / Marie Widengård -- Peak oil and climate change : triggers of the drive for biofuel production / Rune Skarstein -- Attracting foreign direct investment in Africa in the context of land grabbing for biofuels and food security / Prosper B. Matondi and Patience Mutopo -- Smallholder-led transformation towards biofuel production in Ethiopia / Atakilte Beyene -- Biofuel, land and environmental issues : the case of SEKAB's biofuel plans in Tanzania / Kjell Havnevik and Hanne Haaland -- Agro-investments in Zimbabwe at a time of redistributive land reforms / Prosper B. Matondi -- Competition between biofuel and food? : evidence from a jatropha biodiesel project in Northern Ghana / Festus Boamah -- Conclusion : land grabbing, smallholder farmers and the meaning of agro-investor-driven agrarian change in Africa / Prosper B. Matondi, Kjell Havnevik and Atakilte Beyene |
| Summary |
Examines the effects of large-scale biofuel production, seen as having a positive impact on African national economies and greenhouse gases. Finds negative implications as well, especially in developmental and environmental areas |
| Notes |
"Nordiska Afrikainstitutet = The Nordic Africa Institute." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 206-220) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Energy crops industry -- Social aspects -- Africa
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Land use, Rural -- Africa
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Food security -- Africa
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biofuels.
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natural resources.
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food security.
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africa.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- Rural.
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Food security
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Land use, Rural
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Biobränslen -- Afrika.
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Naturresurser -- Afrika.
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Africa
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Matondi, Prosper Bvumiranayi.
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Havnevik, Kjell J.
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Atakilte Beyene.
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| ISBN |
9781848138803 |
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1848138806 |
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1283172003 |
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9781283172004 |
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1848138814 |
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9781848138810 |
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9786613172006 |
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6613172006 |
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